We go inside The COVID Tracking Project and explain why the volunteer-led effort was even necessary.

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** THE WEEKLY REVEAL
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Saturday, August 3, 2024

Hello! In this issue:
* The U.S. government didn’t know where COVID-19 was spreading when the pandemic hit. We investigate why.
* People who experience psychosis often cycle through homelessness, emergency rooms, and jail. What happened to America’s mental health system?

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The COVID Tracking Project Part 1
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Back in February 2020, reporters Rob Meyer and Alexis Madrigal from The Atlantic were trying to find solid data about the rising pandemic. They published a story that revealed a scary truth: The U.S. didn’t know where COVID-19 was spreading.

Their reporting led to a massive volunteer effort by hundreds of people across the country who gathered data themselves. With case counts rising quickly, The COVID Tracking Project became the de facto source of data as its volunteers scrambled to document tests, hospitalizations, and deaths.

This week on Reveal, we revisit our Peabody Award-nominated series The COVID Tracking Project. With epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera and reporters Artis Curiskis and Kara Oehler from The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, we investigate the failures by federal agencies that led to over 1 million Americans dying from COVID-19 and what that tells us about the nation’s ability to fight the next pandemic.
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** A Quote to Remember
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“This is not a one-person failure. We all failed Adam, somehow or another.”
Heidi Aurand spent years doing everything she could to keep her son Adam safe as he struggled with mental health issues and cycled through emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, jails, prison, and the streets in and around Seattle.

Each time he entered an institution for care or incarceration, he was released back into homelessness. And the cycle started again.

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